CLAS-49103 credit hours

Advanced Studies in Ancient Environments and Ecology

Classics · 3 hrs Lecture/Lab Combined

Offered: Fall Or Winter, Every Third Year

Hard to catch. Runs only once every three years, and the calendar doesn't say which, confirm the next offering with the department before counting on it.

CLAS-4910 prerequisites

We couldn't read this course's prerequisites into a chain. The wording is under “Requisite courses” below.

Description

This course explores issues involved in the reconstruction of ancient environmental and ecological conditions (predominantly for Greco Roman antiquity). Topics addressed include the use of environmental archaeology in assessing paleoenvironments; natural resource and landscape exploitation in antiquity as determined from literary, artistic, and archaeological datasets; climate and environmental change; human management of environmental conditions, including overhunting, deforestation, pollution and natural disasters. Students at the advanced level work with challenging sources, especially modern scholarly accounts. This course prepares students for graduate study in Classical Archaeology.

Requisite courses

At least 3 credit hours in any Classics course [prerequisite(s)].

Restrictions

Honours Form Required. Students may not hold credit for this course and CLAS-3910 | ANTH-3214.

Note

Students taking this course at the 4000 level must be registered as Classics honours students.

LectureLab

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